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it is wednesday, january 2nd, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." congress approves a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff but sets up a new confrontation in a couple of months. how will it affect you and wall street? nerves are on edge in southern alaska after an oil rig full of fuel runs aground in a storm. and packing on a few pounds this holiday season might not have been a bad thing. a new study on weight gain. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. the motion is adopted. without objection a motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
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>> congress passes a fiscal cliff compromise. >> the house late last night passed the senate bill that avoids the spends cuts and tax hike set to take effect later this year. >> we've set up more fiscal cliffs. we're going to look back on this night and regret it. president obama urged them not to fight politics with the nation's debt limit. >> i will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already racked up. wall street is ready to rally this morning after the late-night budget breakthrough in washington. asian markets got a big boost over news of the agramt. horng congress's hang seng gained nearly 3%. sandy hook elementary students are about to head back to class three weeks after a shooting. classes return to a repurposed school. an open house is set for today. a shell oil rig has run aground off the coast of alaska.
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no oil is leaking. all members have been evacuated. they captured photos of justin bean 'eers car. >> but he wasn't driving, and he wasn't in the car at all. what a hit! >> he says i'll take care of business. all that -- >> a soldier's surprise homecoming at the rose parade in california. >> oh, that's beautiful. >> makes me cry. -- and all that matters. >> members of congress are for russ after the house went home without voegt on a leaf bill for victims of hurricane sandy. >> absolutely defensive. on "cbs this morning." >> the annual polar bare plunge on coney island to help raise money for recovery efforts from hurricane sandy. >> i lost my house. i'm going in on new year's day. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm norah o'donnell along with
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anthony mason. charlie and gayle are off. no one in washington or in the country seems to be happy about that final outcome. >> late last night the house joined the senate in passing a bill that raises taxes for people earned more than $400,000 a year and families earned more than $450,000. the bill also extended long-term jobless benefits for a year and puts any significant spending cuts on hold until later in 2013. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony. well, if this was high school, you'd say they turned in the assignment a little bit late. it was kind of a rush job, but at least they got it done. the house passed the bill with room to spare late last night. the votes were about 2-1. democratic in favor of the bill. but that still qualifies as a big bipartisan victory around here. >> the ayes are 257, the nays
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are 167. >> reporter: with that vote, the long contentious effort to prevent a middle-class tax hike came to an end tuesday, though few on either side felt like celebrating. >> reminds me of the jokes they used to have on lenox avenue where somebody stopped hitting you in the head with a hammer you're supposed to say thanks so much for the relief. the bill before us is not so much the grand bargain that i and i think most of my cog leagues had hoped we would have been able to achieve. >> reporter: still it's a milestone. >> permanent tax relief for the middle class, more than 98% of american taxpayers, more than 97% of america's small businesses. >> reporter: the bill also permanently prevents the alternative minimum tax from hitting the middle class. >> we're witnessing something that there's been a great hunger
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among the american people for and that is to see finally democrats and republicans working together for the good of the united states. >> reporter: shortly after the bill passed, the president made a point of recognizing republican leaders. >> in particular, i want to thank the work that was done by my extraordinary vice president joe biden as well as leader harry reid, speaker boehner, nancy pelosi, and mitch mcconnell. >> reporter: but many house republicans were angry that this deal worked out by the white house and the senate did not include serious spending cuts. >> i'm unwilling to gag down a bill that they've sent over here that's not acceptable. >> reporter: but in the end they did not have the votes to change it and everyone acknowledged that this deal sets the stage for a big showdown over spending with a vote to raise the debt ceiling coming sometime in the next two months. >> the problem is we've set up three more fiscal cliffs.
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>> reporter: one thing this bill bill really doesn't address is the sequester, the across-the-board indiscriminate spending cuts for defense and non-defense agencies. they pushed the cuts off for two months so you're going to see them fighting right away about how to replace the sequester with more sensible cuts once and for all. >> nancy cordes. thanks, nancy. shortly after the house vote president obama got on a plane to resume his christmas vacation in hawaii, but first he complained to reporters about how hard it was to reach a deal and insisted it won't happen again when the debt ceiling battle comes around. >> i will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already cracked up through the laws that they passed. the one thing that i think hopefully in the knew year we'll focus on is see if we can put a package like this together with a little less drama, a little
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less brinksmanship, not scare the heck out of folks quite as much. major garrett is in the press room where the president made that announcement a few hours ago. major, good morning. >> good morning. >> what was the reaction from the white house once the deal passioned? >> reporter: there were many reactions. i would say it was relief, triumph and a sense of disorder. let me take these in order. there was genuine relief because there were hours of very profound anxiety here yesterday that the house would not pass it. let me tell you, there really was not an alternative plan. if they amended it or sent it back or killed it slightly. so the president stood slightly powerful. they started to feel this was going to happen. so relief was a dominant reaction. also a sense of triumph, the tax debate. for the first time gets the republicans and the democrats to vote for higher income tax rates. a year ago they said they would
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never vote nr any higher taxes and higher income tax rates and they have. and also without touching the entitlements in any way. that's the triumph. as stated, it's not final. there are more debates to come. >> he stood his ground and won out. the spending cuts and the extension of the tax cuts. what do you think the white house learned from this whole episode? >> reporter: well, first of all, that necessity is the mother of invention. this deal needed to get done and everybody had to participate and the president learned things can change very quickly. for weeks and weeks and weeks mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader had nothing to do with it. suddenly he became the key player. similarly vice president biden stepped off the sidelines and became the number one negotiator. the president learn thad that combination can work in the
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future and they gain add new appreciation for speaker boehner. though they doubted him in the past they saw he was able to put the deal through last night and avoid the fiscal cliff both for him, senate democrats, and the white house. >> mayjor gary yerett, thank yo rep from ohio steve latourette said they must have been drunk. he joins us this morning. good morning. i have to ask you. this was a tax cut for most of the middle class and yet no spending cuts. how could you vote for that? >> well, because it's that choice. if there was no deal, taxes would have gone up on every american and the speaker's stated objective was always to spare as many people in the country as he could from a tax increase but at the end of the
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day we got whooped. i would also say we put simpson-bowles the grand bargain on the floor last spring. i got a grand total of 38 votes on the big deal. and 38 votes even in a math challenged person like myself is not what you need to win. >> i know you were joking when you accused some of the senators that they must have been drunk when they voted for this. but i have to tell you. you've left the country with a huge hangover because now you've got about $4 trillion added to the debt and again no spending cuts. again, what is wrong with congress? >> it's outrageous. no one will make the difficult decisions necessary to get this thing done. this is a problem that requires a $4 trillion to $6 trillion fix. quite frankly, the president won't make the move and we've been slow to the dance. and about the senators being drunk since you mentioned it twice, my wife has yelled at me and told me to say nothing good
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happens after midnight on new year's eve. >> you made the point. there were no hard decisions made. you haven't dealt with the debt ceiling, you haven't dealt with spending cuts. i mean isn't this legislation by procrastination? >> it's worse than that because you know even if you take the president's numbers on what the extra revenue is, it's about $660 billion over ten years which is $60 billion a year. it not only cuts spending but increases it and we're borrowing a trillion. you don't have to be a math professor to figure out -- we all know the president was going to get his way. he campaigned on raising taxes, he wanted to, he wins. now we have to face up to the fact that it's not on the revenue side. you really have to come to grips with some of these programs that have been around since the great depression and figure out how to make them viable and sustainable
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in 2012 -- 13. >> two quick questions. wouldn't you have been better off with the deal that boehner first came up with? at least you would have gotten spending cuts. >> no. the president was never serious about spending cuts. that's $300 billion over ten years. that's a joke as well. this required a big deal on taxes, on spending, and everybody's afraid to make the deal. >> congressman, a lot of people are in a rally because they canceled the plans for a leaf package on victims of superstorm sandy. why the reversal? >> i called them chuckle heads and i'll call them chuckle heads again. the same jettisons on plan "b" on this tax discussion a week ago said this $60 billion isn't paid for and because it's not
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paid for, we're not going to do anything about it. i guess they don't have tvs in their homes and they haven't seen the suffering on staten island and the coastal new jersey. that doesn't make any sense to me. an emergency is an emergency. these are americans who are suffering. we should have had the vote. and, you know, i talked to the speaker in the cloakroom last night at 11:00. he says he's going to take care of it. i hope he does because this is another exam pl of people not getting it. a last-minute agreement is likely to perk up wall street when stock markets reopen this morning. markets are already gaining ground overseas but rebecca jarvis says the relief may not last all that long. good morning. >> the bearer of good news. >> what do you think the markets are going to think about this? >> they like the certainty. really over the last year there were a number of businesses saying i can't figure out my hiring decisions. of course, we, the people of america, we drive the kmep
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economy. 70% is what we spent and paying taxes is going to eat into that. but there's the flip side. the $4 trillion in deficit addition that this deal puts on the table and the fact that it hasn't addressed the spending cuts. there were 1,200 spending programs under the automatic spending that were going to get cut and we still don't know about it. >> that's what i wonder. so many ceos who had pushed for grand bargain, comprehensive tax reform which would have pushed for reduction of corporate taxes. now we just have the deficit will continue to grow. why would the market rebound on that news when this isn't a great deal? >> the market isn't always rational. what we've seen is it reacts. if we think we're getting a good deal, it goes hire. if we don't, it don't lower.
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that's going to be a huge driver of where the economy goes next. >> rebecca jarvis. thanks, rebecca. to find out specifically what the fiscal cliff will mean for your taxes go to our website cbsnews.com. here in new york hillary clinton is still in the hospital, but doctors say she's making progression with a blood clot inside her skull. what are they saying about secretary clinton's status right now? >> reporter: good morning to you, norah. the secretary is still undergoing treatment for that blood clot. the spokesperson says he will share new information when there's something to update. when she was hospitalized on sunday, that same spokesperson said she would be monitored by doctors for 48 hours. we're now beyond that window. but doctors tell cbs that it typically takes more than two
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days to establish the proper dose of blood thirner and weeks, sometimes even months to dissolve the clot. the entire treatment can take as long as six months but it does not require a hospital stay. >> wow. that's incredible. is there any talk when she might return to d.c.? >> it's unclear. but as you know, secretary clinton only had a few more weeks in office. she was expected to leave once her replacement was confirmed by senate but there's no word on when those will begin to make john kerry the next secretary of state. in the meantime, secretary clinton is not expected to travel but we're told she's still working from her recovery bed. and students from newtown sandy hook elementary school go back to class tomorrow. it's been nearly three weeks since a gunman killed 20 first
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graders and six staffers at sandy hook elementary. they'll not return to that school. they're going to go to a school nearby. backpacks have been removed and grief counselors will be in the hallway. calmer weather may allow the coast guard to inspect the oil rig that ran agrounded on monday. they say there's no signs that it's leaking. high winds and rough seas are hampering efforts to get to the sea. >> reporter: the ground on a rocky shoreline, shell's $290 million drill barge is at the mercy of the merciness wave, some close to 15 feet hiechl although all were evacuated all the kulluk, what remains is more than 150 gallons of fuel and oil stored in its hull and that has captain paul meyler worried. >> we're take this as a very big deal.
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any time you have a rivering that this presents, we have to take this as a big deal. >> reporter: for now it's holding, but as a precaution, as many as 500 people from an al a alphabet soup of state and federal agencies are staging up and down the coast to help clean up any leak or spill. >> there's always a threat. it's nestled on the rocks and there are still heavy seas. that's why we're moving with all the response equipment. >> reporter: the kulluk doesn't have its own propulsion. it was being towed and broke free in the storm. one of the last untapped regions in the u.s. but that exploration has been opposed by environmentalists in that it's no match for even the most robust equipment. that fear is being tested in one of the most remote parts of
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alaska's frigid waters. for "cbs this morning" i'm lee cowan, los angeles. time now to show you this morning's headlines from news around the world. the terrorist offered three kilos of gold worth $160,000. ambassador gerald firestein's 94-year-old mother says she hopes he has nurt security. the pittsburgh "post-gazette" says the governor plans to sue over sanctions against penn state. the sanctions imposed because of the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. britain's telegraph reports that williams' helicopter was searching for a man. they had to turn back due to the high winds. it was part of a major
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every year the crowd seems to get bigger in coney island where they take a polar bear plug j. this year they're raising money for members of superstorm sandy and some of those swimmers were survivors of that disaster. welcome back to "cbs this morning." it was 39 degrees in new york yesterday. >> there you are in the blue trunks, is that right? >> that would be me. trained for months for that. also here in new york, there's this very unusual criminal case that's bringing back memories of the 1970s. a man and a woman from privileged backgrounds were arrested over the week. police found bomb-making materials inside their
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apartment. seth doane has more. they have pedigrees you would expect from children of new york's elite. morgan gliedman reportedly went to the pretty tijs dallman school and the art skl in chicago. her boyfriend aaron greene is to have gone to harvard. when they were arrested inside their apartment on saturday, police found a container of the powerful explosive hmtd in their neighborhood forcing the evacuation of their neighbors. hmtd was the same explosive that was believed to have been used during the 2005 london bombings. >> it's extremely potent. one of the reasons why it's so appealing for terrorists to use is essentially they can get all the ingredients for this at local hardware stores. >> the 27-year-old gliedman is the daughter of a prominent real estate maker and top new york oncologist. she was also nine months
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pregnant at the time of her arrest this weekend and gave birth to a baby girl soon afterward. cbs news has learned the police seized two shotguns, a flare lawn cher, high capacity rifle pieces, pages from a do-it-yourself manual called the terrorist encyclopedia. the "new york post" reports greene was a member of the occupy wall street movement but the group has denied this. >> the majority were peaceful protesters but there was a more raj cal fringe element to the group and there was a concern at some point they might turn to violence if they weren't accomplished their political aims. >> reporter: their arrests reminiscent of others. who could forget the pictures of
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newspaper heiress patty hearst joining her abductors. and the underground bombing that killed three people and destroying the brownstone where they were staying. gliedman and greene have prior drug arrests. now each have been charged with two accounts of criminal possession of a weapon. greene is due back in court on friday. gliedman who couldn't be arraigned while she was in labor will make her first appearance next week. >> so, seth, they also found some weird literature in the house, too, right? >> we've got a list here. it's kind of surprising. modified fiearms, do-it-yourself reading. not typical reading for greenwich village. >> nor while you're pregnant. >> no. neighbors and relatives knew
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them as being excited about having this child. they're ordering more than 100 older boeing 737s to be checked for cracks and holes in the fuselage. most of those plains are flown by southwest airlines. cbs news travel editor peter greenberg is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning, anthony. >> to start with what is the faa ordering and what's prompted them do this? >> let's go back in history. the first wakeup call was in 1988. the plane over ma wi where the roof was peeled back like a sardine can. they said we've got to look at the way these planes are made because they're high cycle plains. what i mean is they fly a lot with takeoffs and landings. a cycle is a takeoff and landing. every time you cycle a plane you're pressurizing it and depressurizing and that can be, if you're not careful, lead to cracks and faults in it.
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another made an emergency landing in 2009 in charleston when they lost part of their skin and in 2011 another made an emergency landing in yuma. so what the faa director is called for is more inspections. not just visual inspections but electromagnetic inspections. they could lead to cracking and a fracture of the fuselage. >> peter, you're basic ally saying that the shorter flights are put under more stress and are more vulnerable. >> exactly. if they're not inspected. it's not unusual to take 7 or 8 landings and takeoffs a day where another may take one or two. you need to do more frequent inspections to catch the problems early. many will develop the cracks. they're not dangerous if you
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check them frequently. this is not the first directive the faa has issued. there have been about 13 of them. it's the most popular plane that has ever been built. boeing is still manufacturing them at the rate of almost 30 a month. no, not a big problem. $5 million to do the inspections and $2 million to do the repairs. that's pocket change when you consider how many planes are out there. the real key is not the planes just in this country but the ones flying all around the world that are not part of this directive. >> it's interesting enough. the plane involved in the one had 92,000 flights. that's a lot. >> a lot of flight. there are still dc 3s out there. it's not a question of the age of the plane. it's the cycle versus the inspection regime and that's what the faa is asking for now, more repetitive inspections, and i think they're right. >> peter greenberg. happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you.
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you may have missed the from a few days ago. this helicopter was trying to make a rescue on the beach of rio de janeiro but it crashed into the ocean. welcome back to "cbs this morning." fortunately there were minor injuries. >> looks fairly close to shore but i don't know if that's the camera angle. research found that helping others was one of the top ten
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resolutions. that has really hit home for one man in los angeles. >> life is good. >> reporter: for most parents when a child leaves the nest it's usually for good, but at age 51, tony tolbert has come home again. >> thank you for the love that we share. amen. >> reporter: and it's for all the right reasons, or so says his mom. >> he is so giving. he's always been that way. >> reporter: tony grew up in a home that always seemed to have a spare bed thanks to his father jimmy tolbert. an entertainment lawyer in los angeles he extended a hand to almost anyone down on their luck. in fact, tony can't remember a time when there wasn't someone living in his house and that gave this harvard educated attorney an idea. >> if i consider myself a generous person then be generous, you know. practice generosity. >> reporter: tony decided to take his dad's generosity one step further. he announced he was moving back home because he was giving his
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own fully furnished l.a. home to a family he'd never even met, rent-free for a full year. >> i said, had you lost it? >> reporter: tony insists he hasn't lofrt it. but he gained something. perspective. >> you don't have to be bill gates or warren buffett. you can do it wherever you are. for me, i have a home that i can make available. >> reporter: but to whom? tony sought out a shelter for homeless women and children from alexandria house and he found felicia dukes. >> they have a man that wanted donate his house for a year. i was like, are you serious? >> reporter: you didn't think it was real? >> no. >> reporter: felicia had been sharing this single room at the shelter with three of her kids. the older son couldn't join them. not only was the family homeless
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and broke but separated. that is until last weekend when the boxes arrived at felicia's new home, tony's old one and shortly after the boxes her son showed up too. with one gesture, tony's house has become a stranger's real home. >> my heart just fills up and stuff. i'm just really happy. >> reporter: those weren't the only tears of joy. >> reporter: what do you think your dad would think? >> i know what my dad would think. >> reporter: which is -- tony's dad doesn't know because he suffers from alzheimer's disease. >> kindless creates kindness.
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it's 8:00 a.m. welcome back to "cbs this morning." congress finally backs away from the fiscal cliff but at what cost? we'll look at some of the new spending in that by, and new research shows overweight people may live longer. this morning we'll talk with the ceo of weight watchers. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. if this was high school, you'd say they turned in the assignment a little bit late. it was kind of a rush job, but at least they got it done. congress has done what they needed to do to avoid the fiscal cliff, but no one in washington or the country seems to be happy by the final outcome. >> this is not the grand bargain. there are more fights to come
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and they're coming pretty soon. >> there haven't been spending cuts. isn't this legislation by procrastination? >> it's worse than that. secretary clinton is still in the hospital recovering from a blood clot inside her skull. when she was hospitalized on sunday her spokesperson said she would be monitored by 48 hours. we're now beyond that window. in new york there's this very unusual criminal case that's bringing back memories of the 1970s. the suspects had pedigrees you wouldn't expect of new york's elite. >> police found bomb-making materials inside their apartment. this helicopter was trying to make a rescue on the beach of rio de janeiro. would you let someone rent your house for a dollar a month? >> kindness creates kindness. every year the crowd get ts bigger where the polar bear plunge takes a goose-bumps
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raging plunge. >> isn't that you there in the blue. >> that would be me. it took me months to train for that. i'm norah o'donnell along with anthony mason. charlie and gayle are off. there's a compromised deal that raiseses taxes on higher incomes but does not reduce spending. more than one third of them ended up voting yes. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we now finally know with certainty who's going to be keeping their bush-era tax cuts. the answer, just about everybody. the cuts were extended for all household individuals earning under $400,000. $450,000 for families. it prevented the tax increase from hitting middle-class families and extended the unemployment for a couple
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moneyimone moneyimone moneyion million unemployed. that package of across-the-board spending cuts that were to kick in at the beginning of the year to both defense and nondefense-related agency. the negotiators were only able to come up with a plan to push that sequester off for a couple of months and that means, norah, that a fight is going to start right away between congress and the white house over how to come up with a package of sensible cuts to replace that sequester. >> nancy, you mentioned that the sequester was not dealt with. it also didn't deal with the debt ceiling which needs to be dealt with in the next couple of months. so what happens now? is there still hope for grand bargain or is that done? >> reporter: well, that grand bargain the president had been working out with speaker boehner was supposed to include raising the debt ceiling. that grand bargain fell apart and now congress is going to have to vote in pretty short order to raise it and
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republicans are already saying they're not going to do that unless they get some big spending cuts in return. you heard the president say repeatedly he's not going to negotiate over this again. he doesn't want to see the nation's credit downgraded. he wants congress to just pass it right away, but he doesn't control congress. so if he wants republicans to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling, he may have to negotiate with them, norah. >> nancy cordkocordecordes. thanks, cordes. vice president biden is getting much of the credit for nailing down the deal. the message is biden is back. good morning. >> reporter: it's a fresh start for biden, no question about it. he's been the chief negotiator with congress on the fiscal cliff. that was a good thing for biden after his foot in the mouth style. last night all was for given. >> i want to thank you for the work that was done by the
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extraordinary work done buy my vice president joe biden. >> a message for at a boy who cleared the way for three action-packed days. the white house sent the vice president to the capitol twice to convince skeptical democrats that the fiscal cliff deal was a good one. he presented himself as the man who could deliver. mitch mcconnell, the senate's top republican ditched harry reid, his counterpart across the aisle, and asked to negotiate exclusively with biden. the two men talked around the clock on the phone after midnight on monday and at 6:00 later that morning. >> i appreciate the vice president's willingness to get this done for the country. >> reporter: it was the second time in two weeks that the president put his number two in charge. >> the president asked me to convene this meeting with you. >> reporter: last month the vice president was asked to attack the gun law. after his public gaffes hi was
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asked to limit his role essentially benching the vice president after he jumped the gun and endorsed same-sex marriage. >> i'm absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men and women marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civility rights. >> reporter: that forced the president to change his position on it early already than planned. and then people were outraged when he said this about mitt romney to an african-american audience. >> he's going to let the big banks run the rules. unchain wall street. >> boo. >> they're going to put you all back in chains. >> reporter: but he rebounded with a strong debate performance in october a week after the president's disappointing showing in september. >> with all due respect, that's a burn.
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bunch of malarkey. >> reporter: the friendships he build over 36 years helped the president who has few friends on capitol hill to get this deal. so after this, the white house won't likely begrudge him a few more verbal gaffes. >> all right. bill plante, great reporting. thank you. and it's hard to get a budget but through congress without adding something which might be surprised to hear the compromise includes a wide array of tax credit extensions. $430 million for hollywood to encourage tv and film production in the united states. $22 million for puerto rico and the virgin islands for rum and $70 million for nascar to allow certain racetracks to continue to recover their costs. anthony, when people hear that, they're going to be outraged. >> no kidding. but the house decidet not to vote on a relief bill for
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victims of superstorm sandy. on friday they voted for $60 billion for those in new york and new jersey. the leaders called off the vote because of the fiscal cliff deadline. new york lawmakers are steaming. >> hurricane sandy struck on october 29th. eight, nine weeks ago. it's unprecedented that it should take so long. and yet we are now told that this house is going to adjourn, that even though the senate voted for the aid, we're going to do nothing, it's unprecedented. it's disgusting. >> there's no way to sugar coat this. a new study finds eating fructose may trigger brain activity that make use overeat. fructose is added to drinks and foods. they found the brain fails to react to feeling full the way it does when people eat regular
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sugar. the researchers say this leads to more'ding and potentially to obesity. and there's one study that means there may be an advantage to being heavy. it could help you live longer. people with a body max index considered overweight have 56% lower risk of death than people with a normal range bmi. the study also found that even people considered moderately obese do not die any sooner. now critics say the study included thin people who were actually sick or dying and i should also point out on the study, too, a lot of people say using bmi as an index of whether you're overweight or obese is not a good one. we're not going to say be fat, live longer. a few extra pounds won't hurt you but it's important to be healthy and we're going
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they're going to drop some pounds this year. they also said that last year and the year before. the ceo of weight watchers has been watching his own way for many years. david kirchhoff said forget
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about willpower, just get smarter. we'll talk about obesity and how hard it is to come next on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" son soared by lifestyle lift. find out how you can light up your life. ñ??
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guessing you never tried. a man in australia says this 220-pound -- yes, 220-pound hamburger does the trick. it has all the usual fixings including eggs, bacon and barbecued chicken. >> what's the random chicken in between. >> i'm like how does the chicken get in there? >> that's not helpful. that's not helpful. all right. losing weight is number one on the list of new year's resolutions and david kirchhoff knows how hard it is to keep that vow.
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the president and ceo of weight watchers had to do it himself. he turned his own struggle into a book "weight loss boss." >> that burger looks like 12,000 points. >> exactly. the point system. i have to show everybody too. you've got this new book out. but also you're not just the president we were joking. you're also a client. this is you before. you were a little bit heavier. we can see it certainly in your face, but nice cat and nice sweater there. >> poor cat. cat sweater. >> how did you lose weight? >> by going to weight watchers. i joined as an employee. i started going to meetings because i thought i should learn more about it and this very surprising thing happened which is my hecht changed in front of me. i did the program like a lot of people do the program. it took me nine years to get to my goal weight. >> really? >> how much did you lose? >> 40 pounds. but i've kept my weight off for four years which has frankly
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been the more important part of my story which i is think the get the people out of the dieting mindset and more into the mindset of making permanent changes in terms of lifestyle and health. >> you say willpower is largely overrated. >> it is. >> i mean it's not enough. >> the problem is what we know about our brains and our bodies is we're wired to consume. it's a survival mechanism. yet we're surrounded by 600 more calories in the food system per person today than in 1970. we're surrounded by junk food. we're responding to it. we're eating and lo and behold we have an obesity epidemic and this knowing of somehow being strong enough to resist temptation is one that's completely overrated. you're much better off learning how to rewire your own personal environment. >> can i say something what i think about dieting. measure it, achieve it. weight watchers u you mesh with points, others use online apps. it's a simple formula.
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how many calories you put in, how many you burn. >> it is and it isn't. a calorie's not a calorie. if you try to lose weight losing only half a doughnut, that's a tough way to go because you're going to feel miserable and deprived. the trick is not measuring calories but using a system guiding you toward the stuff you know you're supposed to eat, fruits, vegetables, legumes and whoa grains. the value of tracking is it makes you more mindful of what you're doing. so it's less about managing a perfectly challenged equation but nudging yourself. >> the cdc says two out of three americans are overweight. >> yep. >> you say it has the toobt crush the life out of our weight loss. should the government be legislating portions, health care? >> there's balance in all of these things. obviously personal responsibility plays a huge role
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in deal with a lifestyle health issue such as obesity, but, for example, we're big supporters of nutritional labeling on menu boards because giving people better information allows them to make better choices. i think what the mayor recognized was there's an arms race going on between the consumer valuing value over massive quantity and movie theaters and restaurants responding to that. you can't get a cup in a movie theater that's less than 32 ounces. who drinks 32 ounces? it's kind of crazy. you may have to put your household budget on a diet this year. rebecca jarvis will help you plan for that when "cbs this morning" returns. your local news is next.
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♪ and it's beautiful welcome back to "cbs this morning." just because congress made a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff doesn't mean everything's okay. congress will still have to fight over spending cuts, and most taxpayers will still see their taxes go up. that's just one thing to consider when you plan for 2013. rebecca jarvis is back to show you how to deal with the changes on wall street and in washington. good morning again. >> good morning again. >> the bottom line is we're all going to be paying more. >> most people are, yes. 77% of americans are going to see their taxes rise and that's in part because of the payroll tax which was cut to help avert some of the recession's damage. that is going up on everyone. so now it's 6.2% instead of 4.2%.
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the average family, say you make between $50,000 and $70,000. you're going to see your taxes go up $10,000. if you're making 100 to 200,000 that's going to see $1,000 to $2,000 increase there. >> what about the retirement savings? >> it should be from you. it should be from you. continue to see how to make more changes personally that can put more money in the bank that can plan more for your own future because ultimately when you look at where things are protected to be cut on the spending cuts, think about medicare, i think about the entitlement programs, think about social security. those are areas that haven't been discussed formally yet. they haven't been made into a deal but they very likely could be made into a deal and the only way to protect yourself is to save. not enough people are thinking about this. just 42% of americans have thought about it. crunch the numbers. you need about 40% -- or social security replaces just about 40%
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of your income when you're actually in retirement. 60% is going to be coming from you at least. >> that's a big number. i mean so basically how should we be saving then at this point? >> the number one thing that you can do at yourself is a roth i.r.a. and contributions to your 401(k). here's why. with a roth i.r.a. you can take it out without paying taxes on it. it's the only retirement vehicle that you're not going to be pays taxes on whatever the gains are. >> that's only for some income levels. >> some. but most people can max it out this year with $5,000 if you're over 50 years old you can put $6,000 in and it can still apply to the 2012 tax year as long as you put that money in bf april 15th. so it's very important to do that. you could do it now before april 15 and after april 15 contribute another 5,000 or 6,000 if you're
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over 50 years old. it's very important. the 401(k) especially if your employer has a match, you want to do that. if of your employer came to you and said would you like a 3% raise, you wouldn't turn it down. that's what the match looks like. it's the free money. give me the money. show me the money, baby. >> what about the stock market in all this? we've had so many dips and turns here with all this concerns about the fiscal cliff and there are going to be more of these. should we be investing in the market? >> ultimately the market is what returns more than most other savings vehicles. last year with all the dips and turns the s&p 500 still managed to return 13.4%. on average if you look at it historically, the s&p 500 returns between 5% and 7%. and if you look at, let's say you have a normal savings account or checking account. if you've looked at that lately, you're not getting paid much to keep your money there stagnant in the bank. i'm not saying to take all of your money out of the bank and put it in the stock kkt but
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ultimately you want to get paid for the money you set aside and you're going to get paid in general more in the stock market than if you leave it in the bank account where interest rates are zero and the federal reserve says they're going to remain there for some time to come. >> rebecca jarvis making us smarter again. thank you. and this won't be available in 2013 but a massachusetts company is working on new technology to keep drunk drivers off the road. this morning mark strassmann looks at a couple. >> you never get over the loss of a child, your son. it's the worst thing you could ever go through. >> meredith and matt east ridge were driving home in october 2010 when another car speed 1g 00 miles per hour hit them head on. they both were critically hurt. meredith, six months' pregnant lost their baby son. >> i think about him every day and think about, you know, how old he would be and what he
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would be doing. >> the family you would have had. >> right. >> david huffman drove the other car. surveillance video from the charlotte bar showed he had the equivalent of 15 drinks in two hours. he stumbled outside and three minutes later was killed when his car crashed into the ea eastridges. >> it's something that could have been presented. this is 100% preventable. >> reporter: outside boston a company called kin qin qinetiq is coming up with a plan. >> we'venary ohhed it down to two different technologies. one is breath-based, one is touch-based. >> ideally if someone's drunk behind the wheel, the car will not start. >> it will not move.
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>> it sends an infrared light into the fingertip. it measures the tissue's alcohol content or a sensor near the steering wheel can test a driver's breath. in a half second it reads whether the driver's alcohol count is above .08, the national legal limit. zaouk's team is still working through every driver scenario. >> so it could sense whether the person touching the button is sitting the in driver's seat. >> or somebody else is trying to reach and touch the button. >> it could be ready by the end of the decade. >> this is the single best opportunity we have to prevent 10,000 people from dying a year. it's the equivalent of a seat belt of our generation. >> reporter: but the effect knollgy is opposed by the american beverage institute. a group representing 8,000 restaurants. they worry about inaccurate sensors which could eliminate a
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person's ability to have glass of wine at duaner, a beer at ball game or a champagne toast at a wedding and drive home. huffman's autopsy shows he was three times the legal limit. >> there were multiple times it could have been prevented. >> if you're over that limit, that car shouldn't work. >> since their accident the eatridges have had a daughter, sloan, and won a settlement against the bar worth $1.7 million. both say they would give back every penny for one more day with the son they lost. for "cbs this morning," mark strassmann, charlotte. she became a powerleful sports u
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and a fake. they come back the other side. reverse action. a touchdown! >> stanford beat wisconsin, 20-14 yesterday in the rose bowl, one of six college bowl games on new year's day. stanford and wisconsin will earn $20 million for their athletic conferences. the players on the field won't see any of that money and dr. jerry argovitz says that needs to change. his new memoir is "super agent," the one book the nfl and nba don't want you to read. good morning. >> good morning. >> they don't want you to read it because you compare them to the mafia and you say it's like two crime families cooperating. >> yes, i do. >> why?
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>> well, they really have a cartel and they put themselves together. they're the brightest, smartest people you've ever been around when you think about the ncaa and what they've done. that i have a 17-year-old, 18-year-old young man coming out of high school. most of these kids, their whole desire is to go play football and sports. >> a lot of them are poor. >> exactly. a majority are african-american kids. they come from single-family households. they come from economic disadvantages. most of these kids come -- the majority come from no father figure. by the ncaa rules and standards and regulations these kids aren't allowed to have an agent to tell them what the contract says. they sign a grant and aid.
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to me that's a contract. no vice. oh, yeah, they can hire a lawyer. i don't know many poor families that can afford $2,000 to read a contract and the contract is so vague i can't even understand it, so there's no way a 17-year-old, 189-year-old kid can understand it. >> so how would you change it? do you think players should be paid and should they be allowed to have agents? >> i think the only way that this can be corrected, the nfl has a players association, the n nba has players' association and the kids should have their own independent association bargaining for them. a that point it can be fair and regulated into the system. >> well, what would help these players then if they had sump an association. i mean clearly these universities are making a lot of money off these players. >> universities and ncaa is a multi-billion-dollar organization, tax-free.
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and if these kids have representation, then they'll have an opportunity to level the playing field. >> what about the flip side of the argument, they're getting a great education that they might not ordinarily get, they get into schools they probably wouldn't get into, they're part of a top, you know, school where they get uniforms, they get training, they can go in the nfl. what about that, what the university gives them? >> i'll tell you what. what do you think when you hear a full ride? what does that mean to you? when you hear a player has a full ride, what does that mean to you? >> full tuition. you don't have to pay for things. full books and all that kind of stuff. >> let me tell you what that really means. these players are given a one-year scholarship. each year they have to make the team, each year they have to pass the fiscal and each year they have to make the grades so it's the school's option whether they renew the scholarship or don't renew the scholarship. the injuries these kids are make. the reason they call it the
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amateurs because they don't want to pay them and they can't pay them because they're amateurs. the real myth is if they play the payers, they become employees. then they lose the tax-free status and they also have to furnish work man's compensation. >> as you point out a star football player in a division i school can be 800,000 to $1 million in earned revenue. what do you pay them? >> do you give them a little fee -- >> the players get nothing. they'veer and nothing as far as what the schools are making. the players have to have representation, and at that point all these things can be cleared up. you know, when you sit down to try to say how much we're going to give u, how much -- money-wise. >> the bottom line is you thank should get a share. >> first of all, they have to get paid. how can you be a 17-year-old, 18-year-old, 19-year-old young man and go to school and account can't work. they won't let you not have a
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job. you have no money, no income. it's impossible to survive in that environment. >> dr. argovitz, thank you for joining us. congrats on the book. >> thank you. everyone from bob dylan and john mayer are in favor of the martin guitars. we'll take you to pennsylvania to see how they're all made. that's next on "cbs this morning."
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(woman) 3 days of walking to give a break cancer survivor a lifetime-- that's definitely a fair trade. whoo! you walk with friends, you meet new friends, and you keep those friendships. it was such a beautiful experience. (jessica lee) ♪ and it's beautiful ♪ undeniable (woman) why walk 60 miles in the boldest breast cancer event in history? because everyone deserves a lifetime. visit the3day.org to register or to request more information and receive a free 3-day bracelet today. ♪ building up from deep inside it was 3 days of pure joy. susan g. komen's investments in early detection and treatment have helped reduce breast cancer mortality in the u.s. by 33% since 1990. help us continue serving the millions of women and men with breast cancer who still need us every day. register for the 3-day now. (woman) it's just been an amazing, amazing journey.
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i love these people. ♪ and it's beautiful any musician will tell you if you want to create a great sound, you have to have a fine instrument. for nearly 180 years some of the
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world east best guitar has been made by a company that's been in one family for seven generations. we went for a tour. ♪ >> reporter: the barn red building in nazareth, pennsylvania, is a musician's mecca. for guitar lovers, a visit here is almost a religious experience. because since 1839 this is where martin guitars have been made. >> this is the point at which we fit the neck with the compound dovetail joint in the body. this is something we've done from the beginning. >> reporter: chris martin, the great, great, great grandson of a grandfather who started it presides over the acoustic guitars in the united states. how many guitars do you make here? >> here, about 50,000. >> reporter: wow. >> yeah. >> reporter: martin may be the
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most coveted acoustic guitar on the planet. bob dylan plays a martin. so does john mayer, steven stils, and sting. >> there's something about a martin guitar that's hard to beat and i knew when i picked one up, i wanted one ♪ >> reporter: country star dierks bentley owns five martins and also endorses a custom model. >> it attaches to the herringbone with this kind of red, white, and blue inlay which i think is really cool that they did and proud to have my name on it. >> reporter: the company has been family owned for six generations. >> this is truly a family story, isn't it? >> yes, very much so. >> c.s. martin started in 1933. six years later he moved to the
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pennsylvania countryside where the martin guitar company began to grow into what is now a 200,000-square-foot factory. what made it grow? >> folk music. >> reporter: martin suddenly found itself with four years worth of back orders. the sales boom continued until the '70s. >> when it came to a rather abrupt halt thanks to disco. ♪ you should be dancing yeah >> which was no good for anyone who made live music. that's when we struggled. we went from producing over 20,000 guitars to 3,000. >> reporter: in the depth of that slump, chris martin, then 31, succeeded. >> you essentially had to rescue the company. >> i tried not to think about it. i tried not to think about the dire consequences. i just -- it -- it couldn't
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happen. >> reporter: so martin went back to basics. >> what i said to my colleagues was if we're only going to sell 3,000 guitars, let's make them the best 3,000 guitars the world has ever seen, and that resonated with them because we were all kind of down in the dumps. >> reporter: but the company rallied. and when mtv launched its unplugged series, musicians rediscovered acoustic guitars and business started booming again. the nazareth plan now has more than 500 employees like milton. how long? >> i'm in my 43rd year. >> reporter: 43. and you dad worked here? >> oh, yes, and my two sons. >> reporter: martin also has a plant in mexico. did you imagine you would come back?
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>> i never imagined it would be this popular worldwide. >> reporter: what do you attribute it to? >> i really think that musicians, they continue to rediscover just how cool it is to take a finely made wooden box with metal strings on it and hold it against their body and feel it vibrate. i think they find something very inspiry in that. >> it is a really cool place and if you're passing through nazareth, pennsylvania, you can take a tour and it's great story. >> i'm glad the guitar came back after those evil years. >> of disco in which some participated, and we won't talk about it. >> let's pause. what do you mean? >> no, no, no. another day. >> that's another day, another story. that does it for us today. up next your local news. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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